Assign a per-user location policy in Lync Server 2013

The location policy is one of the individual settings of a user account that you can configure in the Lync Server Control Panel.

Deploying one or more per-user location policies is optional. You can also deploy only a global-level location policy or subnet-level location policy. If you do deploy per-user policies, you must explicitly assign them to users, groups, or contact object. Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) settings automatically default to those defined in the global-level location policy when no specific subnet-level or per-user policy is assigned.

After creating at least one per-user location policy, use the procedures in this topic to assign to the policy that specifies the settings that you want the server to apply for emergency calls placed by a particular user.

From a user account that is assigned to the CsUserAdministrator role or the CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer in your internal deployment.

Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel, see Open Lync Server 2013 administrative tools.

In the left navigation bar, click Users.

Use one of the following methods to locate a user:

In the Search users box, type all or the first portion of the display name, first name, last name, Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name, SIP address, or line Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the user account, and then click Find.

If you have a saved query, click the Open query icon, use the Open dialog box to retrieve the query (a .usf file), and then click Find.

(Optional) Specify additional search criteria to narrow the results:

Click Add Filter.

Enter the user property by typing it or by clicking the arrow in the drop-down list to select the property.

In the Equal to drop-down list, click the operator (for example, Equal to or Not equal to).

Depending on the user property you selected, enter the criteria you want to use to filter the search results by typing it or by clicking the arrow in the drop-down list.

Tip:

To add additional search clauses to your query, click Add Filter.

Click Find.

Click a user in the search results, click Action, and then click Assign policies.

Tip:

If you want the same per-user location policy to apply to multiple users, select multiple users in the search results, then click Actions, and then click Assign policies.

In Assign Policies, under Location policy, do one of the following:

Note:

Because there are multiple policies that you can configure by using the Assign Policies dialog box, <Keep as is> is selected by default for every policy in the dialog box. Continue using the policy previously assigned to the user by making no changes to this setting.

You can assign per-user location policies by using the Grant-CsLocationPolicy cmdlet. You can run this cmdlet either from the Lync Server 2013 Management Shell or from a remote session of Windows PowerShell. For details about using remote Windows PowerShell to connect to Lync Server, see the Lync Server Windows PowerShell blog article "Quick Start: Managing Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Using Remote PowerShell" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkId=255876.

This command assigns the per-user location policy AccountingDepartmentLocationPolicy to all the users who work for the Accounting department. For more information on the LdapFilter parameter used in this command, see the documentation for the Get-CsUser cmdlet.

The following command unassigns any per-user location policy previously assigned to Ken Myer. After the per-user policy is unassigned, Ken Myer will automatically be managed by using the global policy or, if one exists, his local site policy. A site policy takes precedence over the global policy.